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‘It will be awful if solicitors stop this work’

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November 15 2010, 10:54pm, The Times

The victim

Anna, from Kent, lived for two years with a partner who became “very controlling”. “He wanted to know exactly where I was, why I had gone for a coffee with a friend and not told him, isolating me from my family.” When she asked him to leave, “I had death threats . . . everything. It had never spilt over into physical violence, which in a way makes it more difficult to get help for.” A solicitor, Donna Payne, of Paynes & Co in Dover, who helps many victims of domestic violence free because they cannot get legal aid, got an injunction to keep him away from the house. Anna said “it will be awful for people like me” if solicitors stop this work.…

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